Hey, once you go Carla, you’ll realize that nothing rhymes with Carla.
Rowen Morland
Parlour?
Miri
Darla? Koala? Moana?
Once you go Carla, you’ll go as far aa Moana?
Once you go Carla, you’ll feel more sexually frustrated than a koala? *falls down an agirlandherfed.com archive binge but doesn’t find the perfect Speedy page*
Once you go Carla, you’ll stop searching the alphabet and won’t hit on Darla?
No, don’t be absurd.
..you have to call Beetlejuice’s name three times.
Carla you only have to think about.
Mike doesn’t even need that.
Reltzik
I thought that was Bloody Mary.
Clif
Your misunderstanding. Plasma Mongoose means if you say Beetlejuice’s name three times, _Carla_ shows up. Mike doesn’t work at all like Beetlejuice. If you want to meet Mike you have to go to your mother’s bedroom under the right conditions. Also Beetleju… Oh, hi, Carla.
Annonymouse
The only name that you never live to say to completion is Candle Ja……….
Michael
It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.
Thorn
No, no, you can and HAVE TO say Candle Jack to completion, but once you…………….
HeySo
This nesting has evidentally been Candle Hi-Jacked. :X
The ‘Carla’ ship is self-explanatory – she is the best.
The ‘Faz’ ship is people appreciating the fact that Faz is alone.
Annonymouse
It is out to sea
It has lost its rudder and gone to meet i’ts maker
It is a lost ship
Bereft of navigation
It flounders in a Sargasso sea
If someone hadn’t given him a chart it would be rusting in peace housing clown fish
Its run down the straits of Hormuz and joined the Flying Dutchman
Its off the books
Its motive processes are now defunct
Davy Jones called and got a not in service message
This is an EX ship
Carla’s parents own a tech company…Carla, at least, owns a phone made by them…it’s probably either corporate swag passed on to her, or licensed apparel she picked up before actually meeting Carla.
See, that’s why DoA is fun. Technically, Carla is going to school here with people who are her parents in another timeline, who own a tech company, so we kept the tech company part and kinda “nudge nudge wink wink say no more say no more” the awkward bits.
Two things Joyce doesn’t like: admiting that evolution is real, and Catholic paraphernalia. If she sees a genetically cloned dinosaur pope she is going to faint.
Yeah, I could only see Joyce pulling it out to throw it in the trash.
But Sal hates the uniform too, right? Given where she got it from? Maybe there’s a way she and Sal could bond over that?
Reltzik
BURN IT!
BBCC
Sadly, Sal still needs it for days her parents show up.
ShinyNeen
“Sorry, mah deranged neighbor went nuts an’ destroyed mah school uniform a while back. An’ I can’t ‘zactly get another from here, so… well, this is how ah dress normally. Ah guess you’ll just have to get used to me lookin’ like this.”
… okay, yeah, fine. Wouldn’t work. : (
thejeff
It’s not like the Catholic School uniform helped when she last saw them, so why not.
BBCC
School uniform might not help but I guarantee Sal’s normal clothes will hurt.
Huh. Wonder why. I know her parents seem to be well off, hence why Mary really couldn’t retaliate, but I don’t recall what all they do, or why the name would be on the jacket.
As far as we’re aware, Carla’s parents run some sort of multi-million-dollar (multi-billion-dollar?) tech company, and at least some of their stuff involves lasers – Carla borrowed some of their stuff and used it to spell out her name when she pranked Mary.
Lasers, right. I probably should have checked the prank scene like I did the ‘and that’s what Ultra Car means to me’ one.
We can also conclude that the Ruttens have some active role in creating and designing their products, between the ‘my dad scratch-built me this toy’ story and Carla being an engineering major. (As opposed to, say, accounting.)
Her parents own a tech company called Ruttech, most notable for making smartphones with a built-in AI known as ‘Zoomer’. Carla’s indicated that some of the things she got for pranking (like the LEDs that spelled out her name during the Mary payback Rube Goldberg) were supplied by them, so we can presume they do more than phones. We also have the story of how Carla’s dad scratch-built her an Ultra Car toy as a kid that could transform into at least three different modes. That takes serious engineering and designing props plus access to good plastic and/or metal, plus the tools to cut and shape and assemble everything. (And we saw said Ultra Car in a Patreon strip, confirming she was on-model and pretty high quality. Again, for a scratch built toy, that is impressive. Wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. Rutten’s a hobbyist.)
So I’m guessing that while they have a lot of Zoomer money, they’re also a very prolific tech company in general. Why Sal has clothes with (presumably) their branding, no clue, but they probably sponsor shit the way Verizon or Samsung do.
Ruttech probably has the latest in 3D printing technology. Even 10 years ago, you could do some amazing things with the right 3D printers.
Regalli
Entirely possible, yeah, and that was my first instinct before I checked the strip, but the term ‘scratch build’ isn’t really associated with 3D printing, just model making. I feel like if that was used to a significant degree, Carla would have mentioned it.
Liquid Len
True enough on the term “scratch build.” My thought is that this was a shorthand way of describing “non-commercial toy”
But speaking as an engineer who’s been doing this sort of thing for a while, I’d probably have drawn it all up in a CAD program, and then it would be relatively simple to feed that into an SLA, SLS, or other industrial type 3D printer. I’ve also worked with model makers who could do amazing things with basic materials.
Annonymouse
I have seen enough on creativity using CNC milling machines right down to hacksaws and a set of files to make elaborate prototype parts and assemblies – nothing in that realm surprises me – not even the Z-scale vehicles on a friends layout.
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Ana Chronistic
I thought Sal LIKED ruttin’
toby
she’s just not interesting in adding Carla to it
Pablo360
Hey, once you go Carla, you’ll realize that nothing rhymes with Carla.
Rowen Morland
Parlour?
Miri
Darla? Koala? Moana?
Once you go Carla, you’ll go as far aa Moana?
Once you go Carla, you’ll feel more sexually frustrated than a koala? *falls down an agirlandherfed.com archive binge but doesn’t find the perfect Speedy page*
Once you go Carla, you’ll stop searching the alphabet and won’t hit on Darla?
Delicious Taffy
She’s a fish killer.
El Chupacabre
Onve you go Carla you never join the South Carolina Administrative and Regulatory Law Association. Which is a real thing, you’re welcome.
Reltzik
Marla.
Ana Chronistic
Once you go Carla, you won’t go that far…la
Ana Chronistic
Once you go Rutten, you gonna be headbuttin’
butts
slap-jackin’
bonky-tonkin’
ShinyNeen
Now you’re just making up words.
Tim
To quote Thor, “All words are made up.”
Homer Sexual
Boffing, knobbing
Plasma Mongoose
Carla is like Beetlejuice?
HeySo
No, don’t be absurd.
..you have to call Beetlejuice’s name three times.
Carla you only have to think about.
Mike doesn’t even need that.
Reltzik
I thought that was Bloody Mary.
Clif
Your misunderstanding. Plasma Mongoose means if you say Beetlejuice’s name three times, _Carla_ shows up. Mike doesn’t work at all like Beetlejuice. If you want to meet Mike you have to go to your mother’s bedroom under the right conditions. Also Beetleju… Oh, hi, Carla.
Annonymouse
The only name that you never live to say to completion is Candle Ja……….
Michael
It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.
Thorn
No, no, you can and HAVE TO say Candle Jack to completion, but once you…………….
HeySo
This nesting has evidentally been Candle Hi-Jacked. :X
Too bad that we can’t fin-
Nono
That’s is a real Billie-like expression on Carla.
mrnoidea
I always thought Carla looked like Billie after seeing her on the cover for Book 6.
Bagge
Sal: So Radical
Proxiehunter
Totaly.
Dana
Tubular even.
Delicious Taffy
“Totally tubular, dude.”
TrueVCU
But is Carla incorrect?
(She is not)
lilyliv
Well, now I have a plethora of questions. (First and foremost, why is Carla the actual best?)
Spaz
Faz has made a chart.
And I, Faz, have also made this other chart, about how all other ships except Faz and Carla are obsolete.
Deanatay
Not a pairing – two separate ships.
The ‘Carla’ ship is self-explanatory – she is the best.
The ‘Faz’ ship is people appreciating the fact that Faz is alone.
Annonymouse
It is out to sea
It has lost its rudder and gone to meet i’ts maker
It is a lost ship
Bereft of navigation
It flounders in a Sargasso sea
If someone hadn’t given him a chart it would be rusting in peace housing clown fish
Its run down the straits of Hormuz and joined the Flying Dutchman
Its off the books
Its motive processes are now defunct
Davy Jones called and got a not in service message
This is an EX ship
ShinyNeen
Ooh, I’ve been dying to know about that Rutten jacket! It’s existence mystifies me. Probably because I don’t know enough about Carla.
laladoria
When was it seen before this?
ShinyNeen
There’s a couple pictures on the DoA tumblr- a panel preview and a drawing of Sal (clothing reference, I think?).
The Dumblr of Age has some great stuff on it!
Kamino Neko
Carla’s parents own a tech company…Carla, at least, owns a phone made by them…it’s probably either corporate swag passed on to her, or licensed apparel she picked up before actually meeting Carla.
All-Purpose Guru
See, that’s why DoA is fun. Technically, Carla is going to school here with people who are her parents in another timeline, who own a tech company, so we kept the tech company part and kinda “nudge nudge wink wink say no more say no more” the awkward bits.
Needfuldoer
My guess would be the latter; Ruttech probably sponsors a superbike and/or or Formula 1 team.
Dafydd
Pull out the Catholic school outfit, Joyce!
abysswatcher1993
Two things Joyce doesn’t like: admiting that evolution is real, and Catholic paraphernalia. If she sees a genetically cloned dinosaur pope she is going to faint.
Dana
To be fair, if I saw a cloned dinosaur pope I might faint.
Wizard
If I saw a cloned dinosaur Pope, I might convert to Catholicism.
Regalli
Depends, what’s Dino-Pope’s stance on clerical celibacy?
K^2
That it’s a clerical error.
Clif
Oooo. Can you go to purgatory for laughing at a bad joke if it’s a good one?
Annonymouse
Maybeee … its all for a bit of a giggle plus you get early release for good behaviour.
Makkabee
A genetically cloned dinosaur pope in a plaid miniskirt and white knee-socks.
And a miter. You can’t tell a dino-pope from a dino-cardninal without the miter.
Clif
And all his dinosaur friends ask “What’s the miter with you?”
Reltzik
Cloning is against Catholic doctrine. Most popes are just plain ol’ dinosaurs.
BBCC
Ahahahhahahaahaha you’re funny.
Seriously though, things get too Catholic and Joyce’ll break out in hives.
ShinyNeen
Yeah, I could only see Joyce pulling it out to throw it in the trash.
But Sal hates the uniform too, right? Given where she got it from? Maybe there’s a way she and Sal could bond over that?
Reltzik
BURN IT!
BBCC
Sadly, Sal still needs it for days her parents show up.
ShinyNeen
“Sorry, mah deranged neighbor went nuts an’ destroyed mah school uniform a while back. An’ I can’t ‘zactly get another from here, so… well, this is how ah dress normally. Ah guess you’ll just have to get used to me lookin’ like this.”
… okay, yeah, fine. Wouldn’t work. : (
thejeff
It’s not like the Catholic School uniform helped when she last saw them, so why not.
BBCC
School uniform might not help but I guarantee Sal’s normal clothes will hurt.
DailyBrad
Huh. Wonder why. I know her parents seem to be well off, hence why Mary really couldn’t retaliate, but I don’t recall what all they do, or why the name would be on the jacket.
King Daniel
As far as we’re aware, Carla’s parents run some sort of multi-million-dollar (multi-billion-dollar?) tech company, and at least some of their stuff involves lasers – Carla borrowed some of their stuff and used it to spell out her name when she pranked Mary.
Regalli
Lasers, right. I probably should have checked the prank scene like I did the ‘and that’s what Ultra Car means to me’ one.
We can also conclude that the Ruttens have some active role in creating and designing their products, between the ‘my dad scratch-built me this toy’ story and Carla being an engineering major. (As opposed to, say, accounting.)
Regalli
Her parents own a tech company called Ruttech, most notable for making smartphones with a built-in AI known as ‘Zoomer’. Carla’s indicated that some of the things she got for pranking (like the LEDs that spelled out her name during the Mary payback Rube Goldberg) were supplied by them, so we can presume they do more than phones. We also have the story of how Carla’s dad scratch-built her an Ultra Car toy as a kid that could transform into at least three different modes. That takes serious engineering and designing props plus access to good plastic and/or metal, plus the tools to cut and shape and assemble everything. (And we saw said Ultra Car in a Patreon strip, confirming she was on-model and pretty high quality. Again, for a scratch built toy, that is impressive. Wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. Rutten’s a hobbyist.)
So I’m guessing that while they have a lot of Zoomer money, they’re also a very prolific tech company in general. Why Sal has clothes with (presumably) their branding, no clue, but they probably sponsor shit the way Verizon or Samsung do.
BBCC
Mrs. Rutten helped build it too. Carla’s from an engineering family!
Regalli
I saw the strip and missed that somehow. Even sweeter! (And clearly the two of them are an engineering powerhouse couple.)
BBCC
Yep, Carla’s family are tech giants.
Dean
Not literal giants, though. But Carla’s pretty tall…
Liquid Len
Ruttech probably has the latest in 3D printing technology. Even 10 years ago, you could do some amazing things with the right 3D printers.
Regalli
Entirely possible, yeah, and that was my first instinct before I checked the strip, but the term ‘scratch build’ isn’t really associated with 3D printing, just model making. I feel like if that was used to a significant degree, Carla would have mentioned it.
Liquid Len
True enough on the term “scratch build.” My thought is that this was a shorthand way of describing “non-commercial toy”
But speaking as an engineer who’s been doing this sort of thing for a while, I’d probably have drawn it all up in a CAD program, and then it would be relatively simple to feed that into an SLA, SLS, or other industrial type 3D printer. I’ve also worked with model makers who could do amazing things with basic materials.
Annonymouse
I have seen enough on creativity using CNC milling machines right down to hacksaws and a set of files to make elaborate prototype parts and assemblies – nothing in that realm surprises me – not even the Z-scale vehicles on a friends layout.
Roborat
I assumed they sponsored a motorcycle race team, like Redbull does, but in their case, they also make the tech that is used by the team.
Stephen Bierce